accessary
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Another popular accessary was face jewelry around the nose and cheekbones.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
“An accessary, both before and after the fact,” he repeated to himself.
From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram
He himself had had no hand in the fraud, but were he to accept anything now from Captain Clinton he felt that he would be an accessary to it.
From The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition by Nash, Joseph
The picture may be true in spite of slips in accessary detail.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
It doesn’t matter about Mr Denham, of course, because he’s in them: an accomplice, an accessary, both before and after the fact—isn’t that the correct expression?”
From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram
These are slight accessaries apparently, but they enhance the value of all the rest, and they have evidently been enjoyed by the painter.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John
The term battery, when applied to artillery as an arm of service, refers to a permanent organization of a certain number of cannon, with the men and other accessaries required to serve them.
As accessaries in landscape, they are just to be drawn on the same principles as anything else. xv.
From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by Ruskin, John
In one sense, also, the artificial accessaries were the same, though exhibited under a very different aspect.
From Satanstoe by Cooper, James Fenimore
In treason, all the participes criminis are principals; there are no accessaries to this crime.
From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Parker, Theodore
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